by
Henri Cazalis (1840 - 1909), as Jean Lahor
Oh ! mon amour, pourquoi, quand nous...
Language: French (Français)
Our translations: DUT ENG
Oh ! mon amour, pourquoi, quand nous sommes ensemble,
Délicieusement, ai-je le cœur qui tremble ?...
Comme lui, la mer tremble au coucher du soleil,
Et la forêt, sous l'aube aimante, à son éveil.
Available sung texts: (what is this?)
• E. Moret E. Moret sets lines 1-2
About the headline (FAQ)
Confirmed with Œuvres de Jean Lahor. En Orient, Paris, Alphonse Lemerre, 1907, page 25.
Note: in Moret's sung text, the lines are followed by "La mélodie aimante et calme de la nuit/ S'écoule sur la ville apaisée." These lines come from the quatrain that begins "La mélodie aimante et calme de la nuit".
Note: This is not a translation. Al-Ghazali left no known poetry; these quatrains were written by Jean Lahor (pseudonym of Henri Cazalis), who imagined himself into Al-Ghazali's life and thought, adopting the quatrain form because it was current in Omar Khayyam's era.
Text Authorship:
- by Henri Cazalis (1840 - 1909), as Jean Lahor, no title, appears in En Orient, in 1. Les Quatrains d'Al-Ghazali, in 1. Les amours, in 1. L'Amour de la Femme, no. 28, Paris, Éd. Alphonse Lemerre, first published 1907 [author's text checked 1 time against a primary source]
Musical settings (art songs, Lieder, mélodies, (etc.), choral pieces, and other vocal works set to this text), listed by composer (not necessarily exhaustive):
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The text above (or a part of it) is used in the following settings:
- by Blair Fairchild (1877 - 1933), "Oh ! Mon amour", op. 40 no. 2, published 1915 [ high voice and piano ], from Quatrains d'Al-Ghazali, no. 2, London, Augener
Score: IMSLP [external link]
- by Ernest Moret (1871 - 1949), "Sur la terrasse, le soir", published 1919 [ medium voice and piano ], from Sous le ciel de l'Islam, no. 5b, Paris, Éd. Heugel
Available translations, adaptations or excerpts, and transliterations (if applicable):
- DUT Dutch (Nederlands) (Joost van der Linden) , copyright © 2023, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
Researcher for this page: Johann Winkler
This text was added to the website: 2020-05-08
Line count: 4
Word count: 32
Oh! my love, why, when we are together
Language: English after the French (Français)
Oh! my love, why, when we are together,
Delightfully, do I find my heart trembling?
Like it, the sea trembles at the setting of the sun,
And the forest, under the loving dawn, at its rising.
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Text Authorship:
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Based on:
- a text in French (Français) by Henri Cazalis (1840 - 1909), as Jean Lahor, no title, appears in En Orient, in 1. Les Quatrains d'Al-Ghazali, in 1. Les amours, in 1. L'Amour de la Femme, no. 28, Paris, Éd. Alphonse Lemerre, first published 1907
This text was added to the website: 2026-08-25
Line count: 4
Word count: 36
